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a lion between eight escallop shells
One William Moffat bears a lion between eight escallop shells.
— from Peeps at Heraldry by Phoebe Allen

and lit by eyes expressing so
Fenwick looked hastily, and saw a very handsome youth bending forward to answer a question which Lord Findon had addressed to him from across the table; a face in the 'grand style'—almost the face of a Greek—pure in outline, bronzed by foreign suns, and lit by eyes expressing so strong a force of personality that, but for the sweetness with which it was tempered, the spectator might have been rather repelled than won.
— from Fenwick's Career by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.


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